The car of the deputy of the European Parliament Andrei Mamykin was attacked by aggressively-minded Latvian nationalists. On his Facebook page, the victim himself was a politician. According to him, he participated in the rally "For Russian schools" when his car, stopped by frontier guards before entering Ludza, screamed and shouted "eight good and very drunk young men". "This is not Russia," chanted the champions of the purity of the Latvian language, for some reason in Russian. And they kicked the car, in which sat the deputy who was taking pictures on the camera of the phone.

These young people are "the embodiment of a generation that grew up in hatred for the Russians, sown by right-wing politicians a quarter of a century ago," Mamykin wrote, adding that he felt sorry for them. "This, too, is the fruit of numerous educational reforms," ??he said.. According to the MEP, the border guard who was there was the same, reacted sluggishly to hooliganism, since "he had, as it turned out, had another order". He had to fix the "numbers of all" agents of the Kremlin, "who goes to the frontier zone".